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Mastering Predictive Analytics with R, Second Edition

You're reading from   Mastering Predictive Analytics with R, Second Edition Machine learning techniques for advanced models

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787121393
Length 448 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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James D. Miller James D. Miller
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Rui Miguel Forte Rui Miguel Forte
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Gearing Up for Predictive Modeling FREE CHAPTER 2. Tidying Data and Measuring Performance 3. Linear Regression 4. Generalized Linear Models 5. Neural Networks 6. Support Vector Machines 7. Tree-Based Methods 8. Dimensionality Reduction 9. Ensemble Methods 10. Probabilistic Graphical Models 11. Topic Modeling 12. Recommendation Systems 13. Scaling Up 14. Deep Learning Index

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed the topics of machine and deep learning and the difference between the two. We also mentioned how deep learning has the capacity to drive change in the world.

We saw how deep learning reduces the effort required by humans and listed some of the current applications where these algorithms have been successfully applied. We then looked at using word embedding for a use case such as NLP applications, and explained how it works.

Finally, we wrapped up with a discussion on neural networks, specifically RNNs.

With this chapter, we bring our journey to its end, having provided in-depth information around performance metrics and learning curves, polynomial regression, Poisson, and negative binomial regression, back-propagation, radial basis function networks, and others. We also discussed the process of working with very large datasets.

Hopefully you have enjoyed exploring and testing these popular modeling techniques and mastered a range of predictive analytics...

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